๐Ÿ‘ค About me

I am a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University. I am working under the supervision of Prof. Yaodong Yang, my first initiation mentor in multi-agent systems. My research interests include reinforcement learning, game theory, and their intersection with mathematical problems. The current topics I am focused on are:

  • Multi-agent Systems: Developing practical algorithms for large-scale system control and multi-player computer games.
  • Reinforcement Learning for Math: Exploring the potential of reinforcement learning in mathematical problems, e.g., discrete geometry.

๐Ÿ“ Publications

arXiv 2025
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The breakthrough on Hilbertโ€™s 18th problem in positive curvature by AI.

Finding Kissing Numbers with Game-theoretic Reinforcement Learning

Chengdong Ma*, Thรฉo Tao Zhaowei*, Pengyu Li*, Minghao Liu, Haojun Chen, Zihao Mao, Bo Li, Yuan Cheng, Yuan Qi, Yaodong Yang

Recorded in the standard databases for Kissing Number and Spherical Code

Research Documentary: English Version, Chinese Version

This work has been covered by:
็ง‘ๆŠ€ๆ—ฅๆŠฅ Science and Technology Daily
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IEEE TPAMI
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Evolving Diverse Red-team Language Models in Multi-round Multi-agent Games

Chengdong Ma*, Ziran Yang*, Hai Ci, Jun Gao, Minquan Gao, Xuehai Pan, Yaodong Yang

Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning
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Game-Theoretic Multiagent Reinforcement Learning

Yaodong Yang*, Chengdong Ma*, Zihan Ding, Stephen McAleer, Chi Jin, Jun Wang, Tuomas Sandholm

NeurIPS 2025 Position Paper
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World Models Should Prioritize the Unification of Physical and Social Dynamics

Xiaoyuan Zhang*, Chengdong Ma*, Yizhe Huang, Weidong Huang, Siyuan Qi, Song-Chun Zhu, Xue Feng, Yaodong Yang

NeurIPS 2024
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Panacea: Pareto Alignment via Preference Adaptation for LLMs

Yifan Zhong*, Chengdong Ma*, Xiaoyuan Zhang*, Ziran Yang, Haojun Chen, Qingfu Zhang, Siyuan Qi, Yaodong Yang

๐Ÿ“ฆ Resources

ICML 2025 Tutorial
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๐ŸŽ™ Talks

  • 2025.12: Invited Talk in Shanghai Academy of AI for Science.
  • 2024.12: Invited Talk in Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) conference.
  • 2024.10: Invited Talk at National Key Lab of Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems in Beijing Institute of Technology.
  • 2024.09: Invited Talk at Cognitive Computing and Reasoning Lab in Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence.